Laravel 4 - Retrieve page info using oembed, opengraph, etc.
Require PHP 5.4+ or higher.
Open your composer.json file, and add the new required package.
"pingpong/oembed": "1.0.*"
Next, open a terminal and run.
composer update
After the composer updated. Add new service provider in app/config/app.php.
'Pingpong\Oembed\OembedServiceProvider'
Next, Add new alias.
'Oembed' => 'Pingpong\Oembed\Facades\Oembed',
Done.
Basic Usage
$info = Oembed::get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1xn5wHtxE');
//Get content info
$info->title; //The page title
$info->description; //The page description
$info->url; //The canonical url
$info->type; //The page type (link, video, image, rich)
$info->images; //List of all images found in the page
$info->image; //The image choosen as main image
$info->imageWidth; //The with of the main image
$info->imageHeight; //The height of the main image
$info->code; //The code to embed the image, video, etc
$info->width; //The with of the embed code
$info->height; //The height of the embed code
$info->aspectRatio; //The aspect ratio (width/height)
$info->authorName; //The (video/article/image/whatever) author
$info->authorUrl; //The author url
$info->providerName; //The provider name of the page (youtube, twitter, instagram, etc)
$info->providerUrl; //The provider url
$info->providerIcons; //All provider icons found in the page
$info->providerIcon; //The icon choosen as main icon
Caching the results.
$info = Oembed::cache($url, $options);
Because this package using the library oscarotero/Embed, please refer to its documentation for more info.
This package is open-sourced software licensed under The BSD 3-Clause License